Abstracted for the WSJ - "After four years of providing care to military personnel, their families and retirees, I've had it.
The hassles of working with the Tricare program that
covers health care for these people got the better of me. I've taken
care of about 80 Tricare patients. But I won't be seeing them anymore.
I was one of a few physicians in the area to
participate in Tricare. Patients sometimes came as far as 50 miles,
bypassing several large hospitals and hundreds of other doctors who
weren't in the network, to be seen in my small-town clinic.
One woman needed a colorectal surgeon because she had a fistula, an
abnormal connection between her bowels and uterus. The specialized
surgeons in our region weren't in the network, and the closest Tricare
doctors who could help were in Indiana. She traveled out of state to
get her problem fixed."
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